Machine for delivering and affixing stamps and the like.



C. A. H. BULLOCK.

MACHINE FOR DELIVERING AND AFFIXING STAMPS AND THE LIKE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 11, 1913.

1,121,227, Patented Dec. 15, 1914.

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momma FOR DELIVERING AND AFFIXING STAMPS AND THE LIKE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 11., 1913. 1,121,227 Patented Dec. 15, 1914.

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C. A. H. BULLOCK. MACHINE FOR DELIVERING AND AFPIXING STAMPS AND THE LIKE. APPLICATION FILED JAN. 11,1913

1,1 21,227, Patented Dec. 15, 1914.

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YHE NORRIS PETERS co PHOIOVLYTHOH WASHINCYC'N. D r' UN" E S CHARLES ASHTON HENRY BULLOCK, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

MACHINE FOR DELIVERING AND AFFIXING STAMPS AND THELIKE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 15, 1914.

Application filed January 11, 1913. Serial No. 741,501.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Cnnnnns ASHTON HENRY BULLocx, of London, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Delivering and Atfixing Stamps and the like, of which the fol.

lowing is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved machine for delivering and aiiixing stamps and the like and has reference to machines of the kind wherein the movement of an operating plunger causes the foremost stamp of a strip to be drawn forward, severed and applied to the surface designed to receive it.

The present invention broadly consists in providing improved means for delivering the stamps, the essential characteristic of which is that the extracting device is normally in engagement with the forward end of the stamp strip and at each operation of the machine plunger the stamp to'be aflixed is drawn forward over the surface to which it is to be applied and while in that position.

is held in tension while a severing device descends and severe the stamp from the strip after which the stamp is detached from the extracting device and permitted to fall on to the surface beneath.

The invention further comprises the various particular constructions, combinations and arrangements set forth in the claims and hereinafter particularly described.

In order that my invention may be more readily understood and carried into practice, reference is hereby made to the accompanying illustrative drawings wherein:

Figure 1 is a side elevational view mainly in section illustrating the main feature of the machine and showing the parts in their normal or inoperative position with the stamp strip engaged by the extracting device. Fig. 2 is a side elevational View of the machine with the inspection door removed showing a stamp in the extracted or delivered position and in tension and ready for severance. Fig.3 is a sectional elevation on line A. B. of Fig. 1 and looking from right to left.

looking from left to right. Fig. 5 illustrates a modification of the stamp delivering or extracting mechanism shown in Figs. 1 and 2, while Fig. 6 shows an alternative form of severing device.

Referring to these drawings the numeral 1 designates the machine casing having an attached and preferably integral drum 2 in Fig. 4c is a similar view which is housed the stamp roll 3 mounted upon a spindle 4, a door 5 pivoted at 6 serving to inclose the mechanism as well as to carry certain portions thereof.

The mechanism is actuated by a plunger 7 passing through the top of the casing 1 and guided in a block 8 attached to or integral therewith. This plunger 7 which carries the stamp aiiixing pad 9 is mainly hollow and has a knob 10 and a longitudinal slot 11 through which passes a fitting '12 attached to or integral with the casing which fitting serves as an abutment for the internal spring 13 which, when the machine is inoperative, supports the plunger in its highest position in the well known manner.

The stamp strip or web 14 passes from the roll 3 through a slot 15 in the drum 2 to a slidin stamp guide 16 furnished with a spring actuated apron 17 which, pressing against the stamp strip, prevents it from overrunning or being fed too rapidly; The stamp is drawn or pulled into position for severance in the following manner: The stamp extracting device comprises a pair of parallel blades 18 and 19 united by a sleeve 20 which pivots upon a stationary spindle 21, and also by a. bridge-piece 22. The device is normally held in the position shown in Fig. 1 by the spring 23 and stop 24, fittings 25 upon the bridge piece 22 being fur nished with hooks or spikes 26 upon which the stamp strip is normally impaled. The plates 18 and 19 are provided with cam slots 27 and the plate 19 with a normally inclined cam edge 28. Pins or rollers 29 attached to a portion of the pad holder 30 travel with the plunger when the machine is operated and moving in the slots 27 cause the device to turn about the spindle 21 against the action of the spring 23. This causes the hooks or spikes 26 to draw or pull the stamp from the guide 16which with its apron 17 is slotted as at (id-and extend it beneath the pad 9 as shown in Fig. 2. When the stamp is fully extended one of the pins 29 proceeds to travel along the cam edge 28 now vertical as shown in Fig. 2 and later in the stroke, before this pin. has left. the cam edge a stop 31 on the pad holder 30 engages a second cam surface 32 on the bridge piece 22 so that the stamp extracting device is held hard over at the end of its travel during the remainder of the plunger stroke.

The severing-member 33-which is corn paratively blunt-is mounted on a fitting 34 carried by a table 35 slidable on the plunger 7. This table is constrained to travel vertically thereon and without lateral movement by the guides 36. A spring 37 housed in the plunger serves to keep this table 35 normally resting on the top of the pad holder 30.

As the plunger travels on after thestamp is extended spiked pins 38 contact and perforate the stamp strip 14 preventing the same from being pulled any farther and holding it during the severingv operation. Then the severing member 33 contacts the web and simultaneously pins 39. contact shoulders 40 on the stamp strip guide 16. This latter is movable being slidably clovetailed into a bracket 41 on the casing, and

its motion is limited by a stop 42. The

guide now moves down with the plunger, and as it does so the underside of the stamp strip is brought into contact with the serrated edge of a vertical plate 43. The serrations engage the perforations of the stamp strip but the severing member and guide still travel on so that the extracted stamp is severed from the rest of the strip. The table with the severing member 33 is now arrested by stops .44 upon the casing and also by reason of the aforementioned pins 39 resting on the shoulders 40 of the stamp guide 16-now at the end of its travel. The pad 9 travels on to affix the stamp which has previously been moistened from'the' water tank 45, the plunger pad 9 and pad holder 30 being slotted at 63 to permit their passage past the hooks or spikes 26 from which the. stamp is thereby detached. The vibrat- 1 ing, arm 46 controlling the supply of moisture is actuated in known manner by contact with the severing member 33. This is furnished with a series of lugs or projections 47 adapted to successively engage the spring pawl 48 on the arm 46 as the plunger travels down. On the return stroke of the plunger these lugs 47 overrun the spring pawl 48 without actuating the damping device.

The plunger is returned to its original position by the spring 13 and on the return strokeit is necessary that the stamp extracting device with the hooks or spikes 26 should return to its normal position prior to the return of the stamp guide 16. .One limb 49 ofa spring plate attached to the fitting 12 has shoulder 50 which engages the upper edge of a lug 51 on the stamp guide 16 when the'latter is in its lowest position and thus prevents its premature return.

v The other limb 52 of thespring' plate presses against the edge53 of thestamp guide and tends to brake its motion. 'After the stamp extracting device has been properly returned one of'thepins 39 contacts the in.

clined surface 54 at the extremity of the spring member 49 thereby deflecting the latter and disengaging'the shoulder 50.1mm,

engage at the succeeding operation.

the upper edge of the lug 51. The same pin The machine may be furnished with a counter, operated from the plunger 7 in any convenient manner and indicated by dotted lines at 55 in Fig. 3. It is mounted on the door 5, and therefore cannot be operated by the plunger when the said door is open. This arrangement permits the plunger to be operated in the course of adjustment or repairto the machine, without causing the counter to register. e

To prevent the unauthorized use of the machine a safety catch is provided. It pref erably takes the form of a small headless bolt 56 sliding in a, sleeve 57 on the door and adapted toenter a hole 58 in the plunger when the latter is in its. normal position. Then the door is closed and the machine in use the bolt 56 protrudes as shown in- Figs. 3 and 4. lVhen pushed right in, it prevents the plunger from being depressed but its self secured by a-lock of ordinary pattern (not shown). 4

In Fig.5 1s shownan alternative means of operating the stamp guide 16. In this construction the side plates 18 and 19 of the stamp extracting device are furnished with arms 59 adapted to contract rollers 60 on the stamp guide 16 and drive the same downward. The guide is locked by the spring member 49 as before and unlocked by the means above described in relation to Figs. 1 to 4. It is not, however, drawn backby the plunger, but by a retracting spring 61 anchored to the bracket 41. v T

Fig. 6 illustrates a modification of the severing device 33 shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3. The comparatively blunt severing edge: or surface 62 is so shaped as to commence severance near one edge of the stamp strip.

This enables the strip to be more easily sev instance, the pins 38 may not be absolutelyv necessary when a serrated plate such as 43 or some other means for holding the stamp in tension is employed, but these pins are advantageous in that they can be solocated thatthey perforate the stamp strip at the parts where the hooks or spikes26 have to What I claim and desire to secure ters Patent is v 1. In :stamp delivering and affixing maby Let chines a stamp extracting device normally engaging the free end of the stamp strip, means operated by the plunger movement for causin the extracting device to move and pull the engaged stamp into position above the surface to which it is to be applied, automatically operating means for en gagin the stamp strip at or near the first line or perforations whereby the delivered stamp is put in tension, and means for severing the delivered stamp at the line of perforations and affixing it to the desired surface.

2. A stamp delivering and affixing machine comprising a casing, a spring controlled operating plunger sliding through the casing, a stamp roll carrier, a stamp strip guide through which the free end of the stamp strip passes, an extracting device adapted to be normally engaged with the free end of the stamp strip, means operated by the movement of the plunger for causing the extracting device to pull the engaged stamp strip through the guide and carry a stamp into position for severing and aflixing, means for holding the strip during the severing operation so that the line of perforations between the stamp to be severed and the strip is in tension, means for severing the stamp, and means for disengaging the severed stamp from the feeding device and affixing it to the desired surface, substan' tially as specified.

3. A stamp delivering and aflixing machme comprlslng 1n comblnatlon, a irame,

a stamp receptacle integral therewith, an'

plunger pad to pass the strip engaging hook V or equivalent of the extracting device and free the severed stamp from said extracting device, substantially as specified.

4. A stamp delivering and alfixing machine, comprising in combination, means for holding a stamp strip, means for engaging the free end of the stamp strip and drawing it forward, said means comprising hooks or the equivalent upon which the free end of the stamp strip becomes automatically ims paled at each operation of the device, means for holding the stamp strip in tension, plunger means for afiixing the stamp and operating the device, and means operated by the said plunger for severin the stamp.

In testimony whereof I at X my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES ASHTON HENRY BULLOCK.

Witnesses Anrnnn AUGUSTUS THORNTON, H. D. JAMEsoN.

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